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Jim Huang's blog: No guns, no gore, but plenty of intellectual guts
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Comments on books, the business of books, mysteries and more. August 18, 2013. No guns, no gore, but plenty of intellectual guts. Published DEADSTICK, his first novel, in 1991, this is what Marilyn Stasio had to say about it, in part, in The New York Times Book Review:. No guns, no gore, but plenty of intellectual guts. EASTWARD IN EDEN takes the series in a new direction, sending Keane to rural Kenya, where he hopes to lose himself where no one will think to look for him. Instead, Keane finds anothe...
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Jim Huang's blog
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Comments on books, the business of books, mysteries and more. May 28, 2014. What the Amazon/Hachette dispute is really about, at my blogs new address:. May 28, 2014 11:36:35 AM. February 07, 2014. Adventures in bookselling: Values. Welcome to the brave new world of textbooks, where dynamic pricing is fast becoming the new normal. Our competition online is charging different prices based on different costs or on different assessments of what marketplace sellers need to get for the product. Sometimes t...
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Blog – Jim Huang - (Stately Huang Manor? My name dot com was already taken!)
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My name dot com was already taken! Essays and other words. Competing with Candy Crush. Earlier this week, Jeff Bezos was quoted as saying that what books are really competing with is Candy Crush. Really? More importantly, from a reader’s perspective, I would agree with Bezos that there is friction between readers and books. I just disagree about the nature of that friction. Price has nothing to do with it. Ok, maybe not nothing who doesn’t want to pay less? My publishing program, Crum Creek Press/The Mys...
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Jim Huang's blog: Where the devil lies
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Comments on books, the business of books, mysteries and more. November 09, 2013. Where the devil lies. Last year, the American Booksellers Association put together a nice program that allowed stores to sell Kobo readers and to earn a commission on the sale of Kobo ebooks. The association made it essentially risk free to get started. Were glad we did, not because of profits - which are minimal so far - but because it allowed us to show our customers that we are participating in the future. Its hard enoug...
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Nostalgia From Yesterday's Conversations: Top TV Episodes of 2013
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Friday, December 20, 2013. Top TV Episodes of 2013. Series finale, Matt Smith’s final episode of Doctor Who. And the Downton Abbey. At the very end you can read about what episodes were the collected Top 10 with other bits of trivia. But first let’s head over to the CW…. 8211; “Three Ghosts”. Season Two, Episode 9). It’s hard to turn the TV on anymore without becoming mired in the tendrils of some cinema-quality masterwork of a show like Breaking Bad. Or Game of Thrones. Or Sons of Anarchy. Way of preven...
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Jim Huang's blog: Reintroducting P.M. Carlson
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Comments on books, the business of books, mysteries and more. October 25, 2012. 0160; So a lot of our books are still in boxes, slowly getting unpacked as we find time and shelf space. Pats books are just too good to be out of print. Its a privilege and a pleasure to make them available again. Find more info at www.crumcreekpress.com. Where weve posted a note from the author about these reissues. Oct 25, 2012 10:07:33 PM. The comments to this entry are closed. People who set prices don't like me. On POD ...
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